Horseshoe.



No. 648,276. Patented Apr.f24, 1900. H. E. MERENESS.

HORSESHOE.

(Application filed Nov. 18, 1899.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet l.

fifinesses, Eenry l iffecfjz/gss,

. (mama,

n1: nomus min bapmqraumm wnsb mm'ou. a c.

No. 648,276. Patented Apr. 24, I900.

- 'H. E. MERENESS.

H 0 R 3 ES H 0 E.

(Application filed Nov. 13, 1899.)

3 Sheets-$heet 2.

(mi mam.

Jewry E. .jl lremss,

fnvezzfaz, Z M

attorney we ionmaymns :9, mourn)" wmucrmn. a. a

Patented Apr. 24, I900. I H. E. MERENESS.

HOBSESHUE.

(No Model.)

(Application filed Nov. 13, 1899.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

7/'znesses,/ linry li'fllereness,

% Invent-av.

" Marne} JNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY E. MERENESS, OF ALBANY, NE\V YORK.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,276, dated April24, 1900.

Application filed November 13, 1899. Serial No. 736,798. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. MERElNESS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to horseshoes; and it consists of the novelconstruction, arrangements, and combinations of parts and deviceshereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

The objects of my invention are to provide in a horseshoe. a'combinationof parts whereby the tread-surfaces of the shoe may be variously changedat pleasure, so as to adapt it for service in difierent conditions ofthe streets in the various seasons of the yearand to provide means bywhich changes of tread-surfaces of the shoe may be effected withoutremoving the shoe from the foot of the animal.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be fully understoodfrom the following description and claims when taken in connection withthe annexed drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a plan of a metal body of theshoe in this invention viewed from its lower side before thetread-pieces of the 'shoe are placed. Fig. 2 is a section takentransverse to its length. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same after the innerside flanges have been turned inward. Fig. 4 is a section taken in thetransverse. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a channel-bar of steel oriron from which the metal body of the shoe may be produced. Fig. 6 is aplan of tread pieces or sections out of the body of the shoe andillustrating an assemblage of the same in the order they occur in thecompleted shoe. Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the same in crossdirection. Fig. 8 is a plan of a modification of form of the metal bodywhich may be employed; Fig. 9 is a cross-section of the same. of anothermodification of the metal body of the shoe. parts of the shoe assembledand secured. Fig. 12 is a section taken at line 1 in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 isa section taken at line 2 in Fig. 11. Fig. 14 is a perspective View of atoe-call; which may be'employed as a tread-piece in the assemblage oftread-pieces in the body of and before outer flange is set in.

Fig. is a plan Fig. 11 is a plan showing tread the shoe. Fig. 15 is aplan view of the same. Fig. 16 is a section taken in direction of line 3in Fig. 15. Fig. 17 is a section in direction of line 4 in Fig. 15. Fig.18 is a plan View illustrating the inner flanges of the body turnedinward before the shoe-body is nailed to the hoof of the animal. Fig. 19is a section taken at line 5 in Fig. 18 and illustrating the same withtread-pieces indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 20 is a view of the body ofthe shoe secured to the hoof of the animal Fig. 21 is a cross-section ofthe same. Fig. 22 is a front view of the shoe secured to the hoof andouter flange turned inward, binding the tread part in place in the bodyof the shoe. Fig. 23 is a cross-section of the same, and Fig. 24 is aperspective view of a blunt toe-piece.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

In the drawings, A is the metal channeled body of my improved shoe,which body may be of iron or steel, cast or rolled or forged, andductile, so as to adaptits clamping-flanges to be bent in eitherdirection, yet I prefer to form the said body of steel from a channel--form bar A, embodying the base-web a and side flanges a and a as shownin Fig. 5. In bars A for heavy shoe-bodies I prefer to form in thebase-web a of the same a roove a run parallel with the flange a and nearits base, for receiving the lower portion of the heads of the nailswhich secure the body of the shoe to the hoof, as illustrated in Figs.21 and 23. This body A may be made in the forms and modifications shownin Figs. 1, 8, and 10 and with dimensions and proportions of parts asmay be required or be advantageous in light, medium, and heavy shoes forlight or heavy or other service. Although these several modificationsshow the continuity of the bodies A to be broken at their heel ends, sothat the terminals a a do not touch each other, yet they may touch, orthe body may be made to be continuous by suitable welding, as bybutt-welding, when preferred, and any suitable machine, method, orseries of processes may be employed for forming these bodies A of theshoe from the grooved channel-form bar A into shapes in curved directionfor a suitable near correspondence with were it continuous or unbroken.

boots of animals theymay be applied to and for punching the nail-holes bb in the web a at the groove a and for dividing or breaking thecontinuity of the flanges a 01. where it may be found to be adgantageousin the shoe or where the character of the service of the shoe mayrequire for good results. The interior side flange a of thebar A, fromwhich the body A may be formed, is turned from inclined position, shownin normal position in the bar A, Fig; 5, and from position in the turnedbody A in Figs. 1 and 2 to the inclined position shown in Figs. 3 and4:, so as to overhang the channel A of said body and form a dovetailform of wall to said channel. This interior flange a in bodies A forheavy shoes is made thicker than in bodies for light shoes and thereforeis preferably slitted by slits c c at suitable intervals, so as topermit the heavy metal of the said flange between any two of such slitstobe more readily turned to a suitable inward incline than the flangecould be These slits c 0 may be made by any suitable means and byseparate or simultaneous operations when the body is being shaped orbefore or after shaping the same. If preferred, the exterior flange amay also be slitted at two or more will, so that said pieces may be madeto com- 7 points in each limb of the said body, as at c c in Figs. 1 and3, for facilitating the inward turn ing of said flange after the body Ahas been nailed to the hoof of the animal and the treadpieces have beenplaced in their proper position in the channel A of the same. With thisbody A of the shoe I employ wearingpieces in the form of removabletread-pieces D, filling the channel A of said body when properlyassembled and secured and having a. projection down from the lower edgesof flanges a a to such distance or distances as may be found to beadvantageous for use in particular seasons of the year or may be suit:able for particular service or as the nature of the pavements orroad-bedsmay require. For adapting these tread-pieces D for servicessuitableas wearing-pieces in the shoe as differing seasons, services,and conditions of streets and road-beds may require Iprovide with thebody A of the shoe tread-pieces which are interchangeable and removableat prise dilfering assemblages of the same and these be made at pleasurewithout removal of the said body A fromthe animals foot. 'Although asingle wearing part of rubber or other suitable material having formcorresponding with that of the channel A and indicated by'dotted linesin Figs. 18 and 19, may be employed for use on sand roads or asphaltpavements, yet preference is given to employment of sectional wearingparts, which comprise two or more tread-pieces D of like material orcharacter of substance or of materials differing in character or qualities, as may be found to be advantageous. Such an assemblage is shown inFigs. 6 and 7 and also in Figs. 10, 11, 12, and 13.

In the tread-pieces D, Figs; 6 and 7, the toepiece (1 is of compositestructure, in which the lower portion, Fig. 7, is of elastic vulcanizedrubber and its upper portion is of composition of vulcanite and corundumor other, suitable hard gritty mineral having adhesion, with its loweror base portion of elastic character, which is indicated by theslightly-undotted portion of toe-piece d in Fig. 7. The heel-pieces d,Fig. 6, of this assemblage of tread-pieces D is preferably made with acomposite structure similar to thatof' said toepiece 61, so as tocombinein each a lower or base portion of elastic rubber in adhesion to theupper portion of composition of vulcanite and corundum, while theintermediate pieces d Fig. 6, are of vulcanized rubber or other suitableyieldingmaterial.

In Figs. 11 and 12 are shown the wearing parts of the shoe having anassemblage of tread-pieces D of differing materials which are adaptedfor use on hard stone pavements and in seasons when ice generally coverslarge portions of the roadways of streets. In the assemblage oftread-pieces .D and D in Figs. 11 and 12 the toe-piece d inthe same isof hard metal andpreferably of the kind known as unmalleabled cast-iron,(from which cast malleable iron is produced by process of annealing.)This toe-piece (1 (shown in Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 24) ispreferably made of hard cast-iron, as above described, or of hardenedsteel and may be of anysuitable form and have its front and rear sides,as s s, made in correspondence with the flanges a aflwhioh clamp saidtoe-piece, and have its tread end portion smade with tapering form, soas to produce a biting edge, with their sides made 'withinclines 8 asshown in Figs. 15 and 17. Made integral with this toe-piece d andprojected from its upper side is a short tenon s which fits inperforation a in the web a of the body Aat toe portion of the latter, asshown in Figs. 10, 12, and 13 and indicated by dotted lines in Figs, 11and 22. In this same assemblage of wearing parts, Figs. lland 12, areshown heel tread-pieces 11 made of metal similar to that of whichtoepiece 01 is made. These heel-pieces may be of any suitable form andhave sides and ends beveled in manner similar to the sides and ends ofthe toe-piece d and are preferably provided with -a tenon sifltting inperforations 0: in the web a, as shown in'Figs. 11 and 12. In some casesthese toe and heel pieces d d may be made with blunt or flattread-surfaces similar to tread-surface s in Fig. 24. In this assemblageof tread-pieces D and D the intermediate pieces d arranged semblageshown in Figs. 6 and 7, and an intermediate wearing-piece (also marked dis shown to be arranged between the heel-pieces d d in Fig. 11. Elasticcushions e, of thin rubber or other suitable material, are employedbetween the toe-piece d and the web a of the bodyA and between theheel-pieces d d and the same web, as shown in Fig. 12. These elasticcushions operate to prevent the shocks from the pound of the metalpieces 01 and (1 being communicated to the body A of the shoe and thefoot of the animal. In Figs. 11 and 12 the intermediate elastic pieces01 are shown to project to a distance at a pointor line between thelower edges of the clamping-flanges a a and the plane of the lower edgeof the toe and heel pieces d and d yet these intermediate pieces mayproject to the plane of the tread edges of said pieces d and d, asindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 12 and full lines in Figs. 22 and 23,or these intermediate pieces (1 may be projected down to any preferredline between the lower edges of the clamping-flanges and the plane ofthe lower edges of said too and heel pieces.

In my above-described parts comprising my improvements the metal body Aof the horseshoe is made to constitute a simple form of device forsecuring at pleasure the detachable and replaceable tread-pieces D tothe foot of the animal, the said body itself being only a part of a shoewhich is progressively changed in its portions from the barformcondition, as shown in Fig. 5, to its form of finish and completionafter the said body has been secured by nailing to the hoof and thetread-pieces have been properly placed and secured by means of theexterior clamp ing-flanges (1 as described, such removable andreplaceable tread-pieces of kind or character being employed to completethe shoe while the body A is secured to the foot as may be selected asbeing the best adapted at the time for use with the metal attaching bodyof the uncompleted shoe.

By my above-described improvements the body A of the horseshoe may besecurely nailed to the hoof of an animal by means of nails which arepassed through the weba at lines corresponding with lines on which nailsare driven in ordinary solid horseshoes, thereby permitting the wearingtread-pieces D of the shoe to be made wider and allowing the replaceablewearing tread-pieces of the shoe to be made from one side of thecompleted shoe to the other aboutin correspondence with the width of thehoof to which the body partA is secured instead of being contracted inwidth, as in cases in shoes which are secured to the hoof by nailsdriven on rowlines through a web which is exterior to the exteriorflange a as in some cases heretofore, and, further, the width of thematerial of the tread-pieces may also be greater, so that a greater areaof Wearing-surface may be provided for contact with the surfaces ofpieces.

required for allowing the removal of those tread-pieces to be replacedby others of another suitable or preferred form and then tightening saidflanges on the replacing- These clamping-flanges a a may be variouslybroken in their continuity as the service of the shoe may require andstill be operative substantially as unbroken flanges for strong holdingon the tread-pieces and protection of the sides of same.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. In ahorseshoe, the combination with one or more tread-pieces whichcomprise the en tire wear-receiving portion of the shoe and haveinclined sides and taper from base to wearing-face and havingelastic-rubber base portions, of the metal bodyA having a horseshoe formand comprising a horizontal web suitably pierced by nail-holes locatedand arranged in suitable rows at near the exterior edge margins of saidweb, nails securing said web to the hoof of an animal, and interior andexterior clamping-flanges, integral with the respective interior andexterior edge margins of said web and broken in their continuity at oneor more points in the length of each said flanges, and comprising thesole means for securing said tread-pieces in place in said metal body,and also adapted to be spread outwardly at will for removal andreplacement of said tread-pieces while said body is nailed on the foot,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a horseshoe, the combination with a metal channeled body ofhorseshoe form and comprising a web which is pierced by suitablenail-holes at its outer edge margin, and having an exteriorclamping-flange which is integral with the outer edge margin of said weband has its continuity broken from its point of junction with said webto its lower edge, and having an interior clampingflange also having itscontinuity broken from its junction with the web, to its edge, both saidflanges being adapted to be turned inwardly toward and from each otherat pleasure, and nails securing said body to the foot of an ani mal, ofa sectional wear-receiving portion which comprises removabletread-pieces having tread portions of selected kinds described and thedescribed elastic element between the latter and the web of said body,and having ITO their sides inclined toward each other as they I saidmetal body and replaced'by other similar run from base to Wearing-faceso as to be con or corresponding form pieces of the same or 10 fined inplace Within said metal body solely different quality or character asdescribed, by the grip of said clamping-flanges turned substantially asset forth.

5 tight on their inclined sides, the said clamp V HENRY Ell/IERENESS.

ing-flanges being adapted to be loosened from Witnesses: v their grip onsaid sectional Wear-receiving A.-SELKIRK, Jr.,

pieces and the latter removed at pleasure from CHARLES SELKIRK.

